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Welcome to my site! My name is Andrea Thompson, and I’m a writer, editor, and film critic who is a member of the Chicago Indie Critics and also the founder and director of the Film Girl Film Festival, which you can find more info about at filmgirlfilm.com! I have no intention of becoming any less obsessed with cinema, comics, or nerdom in general.

Beast Review – CGI Gets Real

Beast Review – CGI Gets Real

CGI has no business being as scary as it is in the action thriller Beast, wherein a rogue lion is intent on hunting down a family it identifies with those who murdered its own.

Audiences do love an underdog, sometimes even at the expense of their interests. It’s the only way to explain this particular genre, which has evolved from rooting for humans to exterminate the brutes to rooting for the so-called brutes to exterminate the real monsters: MAN.

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Women are on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in the Feminist Horror Medusa

Women are on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in the Feminist Horror Medusa

Not Even Tatiana Maslany Can Muscle She-Hulk: Attorney At Law to Greatness

Not Even Tatiana Maslany Can Muscle She-Hulk: Attorney At Law to Greatness